European Association of History Educators

On 21-22 June, the European Commission DG Communication hosted the 2nd Structured Dialogue Meeting on the “Europe for Citizens” Programme in Brussels. Over 100 representatives of ministries, ngo’s and other civil society organisations from all over Europe and beyond met and exchanged with EC Policy Makers their views on the current and future “Europe for Citizens” Citizenship funding programme. As part of an invitation extended by EUCIS-LLL, EUROCLIO was actively represented by Jonathan Even-Zohar at this meeting. In the many break-out sessions and participatory Open Space and World Café discussions that were organized by the Commission, he represented the view that History Education can be a fundamental instrument in achieving the programmes aims. The next generation “Europe for Citizens” Programme will be launched in 2014, which made this approach of the commission to consult the stakeholders and civil society representatives in this early stage unique, relevant and useful. For more information please contact EUROCLIO Senior Manager This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

The Council of Europe has recenlty published the new book "Policies and practices for teaching sociocultural diversity - A framework of teacher competences for engaging with diversity" designed to provide a basis for future teachers to situate themselves in diverse environments, develop a clearer sense of their ethnic and cultural identities and examine attitudes to different groups. It puts forward 18 "diversity competences" that were identified by a team of European specialists in teacher training between 2006 and 2009. In order to open up the debate on competences, four consultation sessions were organised in Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Estonia.

On 16-17 June, the History Education Division of the Council of Europe launched a new project “Shared Histories” in Drammen during a conference that was organized in cooperation with the European Wergeland Center. More than ninety professionals in the field of education, representing both ministries and practicing teachers exchanged ideas related to the theme of the conference Shared Histories without Dividing Lines. The conclusions that were made during the discussion groups will be used during the implementation of the new project. More information on the project, the programme and the people behind this initiative is available online

The Council of Europe new Project on "Shared Histories for a Europe without Dividing Lines" will be launched with a Conference on the theme "Interactions, convergences, conflicts : European lessons in shared histories" . The Conference is taking place in Oslo, Norway in in co-operation with the European Wergeland Centre and the support of the Norwegian Ministry of Education. EUROCLIO will be represented by Steven Stegers, EUROCLIO Project Manager. The Conference Programme includes presentations on the CoE Project "The Image of the Other in History Teaching", recommendations of the Project on educational policies, strategies and methodologies. For more information, please download the Conference Programme.